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Hey Steve. First, I deeply thank you. It is obvious that you have dedicated some precious time for me, time that you could spend in doing stuff you usually ged paid for. I really appreciate that.

I have went through the errors again . (sorry I didnt use the doc words U sent me, because that list and the line numbers I could see using the wc3 online validator with the option “show source” checked). Anyway, I fixed some errors (after really great effort), and now errors are now 63 after they been 73.

Yet, the errors that cause the problem are still there. The major problem as I can see is caused by the li and lu tags. I know that, because I actually modified the theme and forced such tags into it for the theme to look okay in everything that is related to the widgets.

THE WHOLE STORY !

This theme is called Pride. it was localized to Arabic by some guy who is believed to be knowing what he is doing.

The WHole problem started with the widgets, the green boxes that U can see in the sidebar. When I added any code to a new text widget (for instance, post views widget), the green box appeared chopped from the bottom. All text widgets acted the same. So I had to insert the code manually to the sidebar. But this made things worse, as the green box didnt appear at all, or appeared its header or its bottom or its body, not complete. I searched the sidebar’s template and found that the author uses li and ul tags before and after the categories widget which is of course added to the template file manually, not using a widget. I tried to add similar li and lu tags before and after the code of the post views, and voila, it worked and the widget appeard perfect.

I did similarly for all text widgets. I didnt know about validation or errors . and I didnt test the website with IE then.

After I finished I discovered that there are problems with widgets and tried to fix them. I fix all of them (seemingly), except one that U can see one under the sidebar adsense widget in IE7.

Then I discoverd the other problems when I wrapped the inside post adsense item within a white cloud like that of the comments. in FF it appeared great, in IE it didnt, and that is when I reported the problem.

So the reason why I cant remove the li lu tags is that it will ruin the whole look not fix it. And as I said, I had to use these tags to fix the view of the widgets.

It is important to mention that the problems (the current breaks seen under IE ) DISAPPEAR under IE when I implement the original non-localized, left to right English CSS. I said and I mean it! All errors of image breaks and flying adsense ads are gone. The only problem that remains is that green bar under the sidebar adsense item.

So isnt it a problem of the CSS???

STVWLF (Really BIG thanx to him) has sent me a solution (after I emailed him), suggesting the following similar solution, yet it sadly brought to the same error message.
And I think it needs to be re-shaped because I use other custom codes between the <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> and the <?php the_content like the post views, the ratings, the tags, the edit link, etc.

If it is the same list of categories every time, in the same display order, you could do something like this

$display_cats =  array(1, 6, 13, 24, 9, 7);
          // this is the list of category id's in the order you want them displayed

foreach ($display_cats as $cat) {
   $posts = new WP_Query("cat=$cat&showposts=1");
   while($posts->have_posts()) : $posts->the_post();?>
        <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
        <?php the_content(__('Read the story &raquo;'));?></div>
   <?php endwhile; ?>
<?php } ?>

I haven’t tested that code – it probably has some mistakes in it. I am showing an approach to solving the problem.

What the code does: create an array of all the category codes you want to display in the order you want them displayed. Loop through that category array creating a WordPress loop for each category. Display the most recent post in the category that is being processed. Loop to the next category in the category array list.

take care
Steve

Btw, ive read those topics too, but sadly of no help for my case:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/255074?replies=10

Up

THANX AGAIN !!

Yes, it works ! I just inserted an image inside that comments template wrap (the white cloud shape) , and it appeared just great, not only the image doesnt float (or fly) to the left as the ad used to do , but the cloud shape is complete not broken like in the case of google’s java ad.

Also, I noticed that when I point the mouse to the rating stars (java), the ad in the sidebar doesnt fly as it used to do when there was an ad in the post top (where I placed an image now).

Still , the top AND bottom of the cloud shape that contains the post body (which is under the ad cloud) is still broken

Also, if I remove the sidebar ad , that post cloud bottom is still broken, so it seems not related.

What next ?

Hey and thank you (really) again

I tried to fix as much errors as I could. I reduced them from 92 to 75. However, among these 75 there are errors related to

• or

Many of the errors are very vague, its not mentioned where they occur, and I had difficulty to determine their location.

You are right. There are

or
• followed by the same tag before it is closed (I understood that each tag should be closed before beginning another one). But the problem here is that I had to do this for the green widget boxes to look okay. If I didnt make each php function (like categories, archive, etc) within

and
• tags, the bottom of the widget wouldnt be displayed and the look will be ruined. There is a problem in the theme that text widgets appear with their bottom chopped, so I had to manually add them to the sidebar template file and add to them the
• and

tags.

I know you might reach here reading while understanding absolutely nothing, but I couldnt explain it more than this.

Thanx again if you could me help.

PLEASE HELP !

BUMP AGAIN !